VTA

VTA

Posted by jedrider (A) on August 28, 2016 at 22:15:53

I've been sorting through my record collection trying to get the size down to about the 300 album mark, probably more, though, from 500 or so. It's a brutal process, but someone has to do it!

I'm going mostly on whether I think the album sounds good and I enjoy it, which is probably a very risky method as I can let go of some very good albums IMO without even realizing it.

So, I do notice that I have two mats (actually three, the third one even thinner by another 10 mils and a radically different composition that is not so beneficial to most of my albums AFAIK) that I interchange and definitely some albums prefer one mat and other albums sounds better with the other.

On mat is the Rega original mat on a Regar Planar 3. The other mat is a mat I did see on a website, a gray generic mat, and their thickness are different by about 10 mils (thousands of an inch), the gray mat being slightly thinner. I definitely notice a difference and I don't attribute it to the mat composition (my opinion, or guess. basically), but to the mat's thickness. I'm using a Benz Ace which I believe has a line contact stylus.

I have no problem with this method of switching mats as appropriate, but just the thought that there are albums I would not appreciate if I hadn't had this method already and how many albums I didn't care for that maybe required a different mat thickness that I don't have?

I'm just putting this out there for some discussion.

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Topic - VTA - jedrider 22:15:53 08/28/16 (10)

RE: VTA - Jeff Starr 10:14:26 08/29/16 (1)

Well - jedrider 19:29:18 08/29/16 (0)

This has been debated for a long time... - EdAInWestOC 06:58:00 08/29/16 (1)

RE: This has been debated for a long time... - dave slagle 10:19:02 08/29/16 (0)

RE: VTA - PAR 02:22:18 08/29/16 (5)

RE: While certainly the mat's composition affects the sound ... - andyr 13:27:40 08/29/16 (4)

RE: While certainly the mat's composition affects the sound ... - PAR 15:40:02 08/29/16 (3)

RE: While certainly the mat's composition affects the sound ... - andyr 15:43:22 08/29/16 (2)

RE: While certainly the mat's composition affects the sound ... - PAR 16:52:01 08/29/16 (1)

RE: While certainly the mat's composition affects the sound ... - TomWh 20:58:28 08/29/16 (0)

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